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For this week's Throwback Thursday, former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley (D) unearthed an old video of him and Rudy Giuliani talking trash about football. It's worth watching, if just for the 90s-kids-movie music. The clip was filmed in January 2001, before the Baltimore Ravens and the New York Giants met at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida for Super Bowl XXXV.

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There is no clear heir apparent to Donald Trump's support if/when he fades. Washington Post pollster Scott Clement analyzed recent surveys to try answering my question of who the business mogul's voters would move to if he left the race. It is hard to predict definitively because the sample sizes are so small, which means large margin of errors.

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Michael Glassner, a former aide to onetime GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, will join Donald Trump's campaign as national political director, the campaign announced Thursday. "I am pleased to welcome Michael Glassner to our national campaign leadership team," Trump said in a statement.

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You never know who you'll bump into at Fox News, especially now that there are - count 'em - 17 Republican candidates for president. Such was the case for Rick Perry and Scott Walker on Thursday morning as the two met unexpectedly on the set of Fox & Friends in New York.

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Ron Wyden, happy warrior, is at it again. The Oregon Democrat is throwing sand in the gears of legislation designed to fight hackers and terrorists over concerns that the bills will limit users' privacy and free speech. With just days left before the August recess, Sen.

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Hillary Rodham Clinton is drawing a line in the sand when it comes to the Islamic State: She wants to kick them off Twitter. "We have got to shut down their Internet presence, which is posing the principal threat to us," Clinton said during a campaign stop in Nashua, N.H., according to the Wall Street Journal.

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THE BIG IDEA: Their hearts are for Bernie, but their heads tell them to get behind Hillary. Sanders has undeniably been a more reliable ally for unions on the issues they most care about, especially trade. Though many leaders view Clinton warily, they recognize that she is the overwhelming frontrunner and see her as their best bet to hold the White House.

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Floor charts, meet emoticons. The Senate is trying hard to stay current, and nowhere was that more evident this week than on the floor, where Sens. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) and Ed Markey (D-Mass.) used shrug symbols to criticize Republicans on climate change. Don't know the shruggie?

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A senior Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee was charged with corruption for allegedly taking a secret $1 million loan during his 2007 campaign for Philadelphia mayor and seeking to repay it with federal grant funds. Rep. Chaka Fattah (D-Pa.) was charged with 29 counts, including bribery, bank fraud and racketeering.